Researchers working at the University of Illinois have been taking steps that could eventually lead to cell-size batteries that power theoretical sensors that could go inside the body to better track your health.
The team publish...

Engineers at MIT have been combining gold particles with E.coli cells in order to have cells that are conductive and they have been attaching them through the use of biofilms that are “sticky”.
The goal of this is to ...

A group of engineers have created a robotic suit capable of letting you lift 220 pounds like it was nothing. While I’d like to believe the “body extender” as they’re calling it is just the precursor to the...

Scientists have been working on a system that can distinguish when someone is lying in a tweet.
The system, which is being called Pheme, operates by taking into account the information and sources which disseminate it. It looks ...

A US military lab in Massachusetts has reached a breakthrough in their quest to aid the army. The US military has been asking soldiers what they’d like to be added to the list of MREs (Meal, Ready-To-Eat), and pizza has alw...

YEI Technology, which has launched a second Kickstarter campaign for their full-body virtual reality suit, has been successful.
The company tried a Kickstarter last year, but it failed. This year they have come back and they wer...

A Canadian engineer has built a “cheap” space cannon in his backyard. Richard Graf built the 45 foot cannon as a way for people to launch their own small satellites, or “cubesats”, up into orbit.
He has tu...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is testing out drones and their delivery applications in Dubai.
Interestingly enough, the first things that the drones will be carrying will be government documents like driver’s licenses. The...

The Chinese lunar rover, called Jade Rabbit, has stopped working and there will not be an attempt to repair it.
This news comes from a statement released through ecns, a Chinese news website. The problems with the rover were firs...

With all the focus being on wearable tech these days, its hardly surprising that the latest device to enter the market will be a smart diaper. The University of Tokyo has developed a sensor that can be placed inside diapers and a...

Scientists have created a bionic hand that actually let’s a person feel with it. The full details have been published in the Science Translational Medicine Journal on the experiment lasted a month and had very positive resu...

It seems that Dell is working on a computer that can understand a person’s mood.
This project is part of Dell’s new R&D division. It was revealed by Jai Menon, who is heading up the new unit, in an interview with ...

Starwood Hotels & Resorts will soon begin a pilot program that will let hotel guests use their smartphones as a means to check-in and also as a hotel room key. Ideally, this would mean that you could skip the check-in desk a...